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Modern Alternative Mama - Blog - The GAPS Diet**This post has been entered in Real Food Wednesdays at Kelly the Kitchen Kop!** The GAPS diet. I’ve mentioned it a few times before, but haven’t gone into any great detail about what it is, why we’re doing it, or anything else. A LOT of bloggers are now doing it, hoping to do it, or have previously done it, including Donielle at Naturally Knocked Up, Stephanie at Keeper of the Home, Kelly at Kelly the Kitchen Kop, and Ann Marie at Cheeseslave. You can visit all their blogs for their perspectives on the diet, and some good GAPS-friendly recipes.

Specific Carbohydrate DietThe Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) is an alternative medicine treatment for Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), collectively termed inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The SCD removes starch and complex sugars from the diet. This is intended to alter the gut biome (the number and mix of bacteria living in the gut), suppressing bacteria that may trigger IBD symptoms in some individuals, and so providing disease remission in some cases. The SCD has also been suggested as a treatment for autism and other conditions. History and Development[edit] The Specific Carbohydrate Diet was developed by Sidney V.

PRODUCTS ALISA LOVES - SupplementsShopping Cart Supplements PRODUCTS ALISA LOVES | Shopping Cart | FLOliving Browse by Category SupplementsBeautyBooksFood FLOlivingSpecific Carbohydrate DietSpaghetti (Squash) Pie In my mind, squash is the champion of winter vegetable storage. Stuffed, mashed, pureed into soup, baked into sweet breads and pies, there are as many uses for squash as there are varieties. When giving up pasta, I was delighted to find that spaghetti squash provided a myriad of comfort foods to carry me through...Small intestinal bacterial overgrowthSigns and symptoms[edit] Bacterial overgrowth can cause a variety of symptoms, many of which are also found in other conditions, making the diagnosis challenging at times.[1][3] Many of the symptoms are due to malabsorption of nutrients due to the effects of bacteria which either metabolize nutrients or cause inflammation of the small bowel impairing absorption. The symptoms of bacterial overgrowth include nausea, flatus,[4] constipation,[5] bloating, abdominal distension, abdominal pain or discomfort, diarrhea, fatigue, and weakness.[6] SIBO also causes an increased permeability of the small intestine.[7] Some patients may lose weight. Children with bacterial overgrowth may develop malnutrition and have difficulty attaining proper growth. Steatorrhea, a sticky type of diarrhea where fats are not properly absorbed and spill into the stool, may also occur.[4] Risk factors[edit]

Hard Body Training for WomenWomen tend to have a higher pain tolerance when it comes to training, can recover faster between sets, and are able to sustain a higher volume of work. Men are welcome to try the program, but they may not be able to hang! This program has you training the same muscles two days in a row: heavy lifting the first day and pump work for the same muscles the next day. Training the same muscles two days in a row facilitates recovery and lengthens the duration of the anabolic phase. The workout plan calls for five mandatory training days per week with an optional sixth day. That extra day will help you get leaner super fast, but you'll get amazing results with just the five main workouts.

The SCD diet has serious flaws and errors that limits healing. (diet diabetes carbohydrates aids allergies) - Mombu the Medicine ForumSCD helps some people with intestinal diseases, but the result is sporadic. Many people continue to experience pain, intestinal bleeding, constipation, diarrhea and flare-ups on the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD). Many continue for years with some improvement but cannot live a symptom free life without drugs. This occurs because the SCD diet has serious flaws and errors.

Natural Workouts: Wild Workouts with the World’s Fittest ManErwan Le Corre, a French-born free diver, ultra runner, rock climber, grappler, and all-around athlete is the creator of MovNat, a training system designed to reintroduce modern man to the natural movements and escape the overweight, overspecialized beings we are today. MovNat takes the athletes out of the gym or specific sports like cycling and puts them into the wilderness where he’ll sprint up hills, climb trees, crawl through brush, carry boulders, balance on logs—all the skills our distant ancestors had to have in order to survive back when survival depended more on physical fitness than on 401(k) returns. “We all have these instinctual movement patterns built into our primal memories,” Le Corre says. The problem is that in today’s world, we’ve moved beyond these instinctual patterns into specialized movements and skills. As a result, we have body builders who can bench press 400 pounds, but can’t run a mile.

DietNetGut & Psychology Syndrome™ by Natasha Campbell-McBride This book is a well-researched, science-based summary of the genetic-nutritional-biochemical factors that link Autism, ADD, ADHD, Dyspraxia, Dyslexia, Depression and Schizophrenia to digestive dysfunction.Running Barefoot: Training TipsRunning Barefoot, Forefoot Striking & Training Tips Forefoot Striking & Impact Forces For millions of years, it is likely that runners landed with no single, specific foot strike, and rather landed with a variety of foot strikes including forefoot, midfoot and heel strikes, but we suspect that the most common form of foot strike was a forefoot strike. Midfoot strikes were probably also more common than they are today.

Fermentation in the gut and CFS - DoctorMyhillI am most grateful to Dr Henry Butt from Australia for providing essential information! The normal state of affairs The human gut is almost unique amongst mammals - the upper gut is a near-sterile, digesting carnivorous gut (like a dog's or a cat's) to deal with meat and fat, whilst the lower gut (large bowel or colon) is full of bacteria and is a fermenting, vegetarian gut (like a horse's or cow's) to digest vegetables and fibre. From an evolutionary perspective this has been a highly successful strategy - it allows Eskimos to live on fat and protein and other people to survive on pure vegan diets. Problems arose when humans learned to cook and to farm.Wonder BoyRUNNING PHENOM Budhia Singh at the home of his uncle in a slum neighborhood of Bhubaneshwar. / Photo by J Carrier If you stand long enough by the temple complex, you will see them—the pilgrims—weaving on bare feet through the choked, filthy side streets, past bone-thin wandering cows and past amputee beggars and street children and mangy dogs sprawled on their backs on the cobblestone. Patiently, the pilgrims pick their way through the mayhem of Puri, India, until they catch sight of the terraced white spires of Jagannath, a labyrinth of some 120 temples. Then they drop to their knees and pray—and, watching, you see how the gritty physical world and the shimmering spiritual realm are deeply intertwined in India, sometimes in strange ways. How the feature appeared in the August 2008 issue.

Health Promoting Bone Broth (For soups or drinking) « Balance Your AppleThe idea with bone broth is to extract minerals from the bones while enriching the liquid with minerals and vitamins from vegetables. Choose bones that are from organic or 100% grass raised animals and ask your butcher to cut the bones up for you so that you can see the marrow. Some meat on the bones is a good thing as well. Ask for knuckle bones as well as long bones cut up. The marrow from the bones, the collagen from the joints and the gelatin that forms should all be left in the broth for consumption.Feet & Ankle WorkoutsWelcome back, {* welcomeName *}! {* loginWidget *} Welcome back!